[Distutils] What's up with PyPi maintenance?

[Richard Jones]

On 16 March 2016 at 03:41, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov> wrote:

> Probably not the right list but:
>
> There are a number of folks having issue siwth new PyPi pacakges not being
> found by search:
>
>
> https://bitbucket.org/pypa/pypi/issues/412/my-package-doesnt-show-up-in-search
>
> clearly issues have been posted to the project, but has been going on a
> for a while, with seemingly no action, or response from PyPi
> developers/maintainers.
>
> a) Is there somewhere else we can ping the right fols?
>
> b) Is there a serious lack of folks available to address such issues?
>

This is the correct answer. I can't even keep on top of the request from
people wanting to take over packages.


if (b), should we make a concerted effort to recruit new folks to assist
> PyPi maintenance / development???
>

That would be nice, but would be pointless until Warehouse goes live.


     Richard
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